B. B. King (Riley B. King) Quotes

I've been married twice. Most women would rather not be married to a traveling blues singer.

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• A great man is different from an eminent one in that he is ready to be the servant of the society.

  

  Babasaheb
  • Great
  • Different
  • Man

• 'Cold Case Files' and similar shows do bang up business, which points to a certain thirst for details in the viewership, but it seems like all the news chat shows continue to force the myth that Americans can't stand detail and have no interest in an idea that can't fit on a bumper sticker.

  

  Hal Sparks
  • Up
  • Business
  • Cold

• I want to stop transforming and just start being.

  

  Ursula Burns
  • Want
  • Stop
  • Start

• I like playing sort-of-crazy people. There's something really, really fun about that.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • People
  • Fun
  • Crazy

• A mortgage transaction is very complex, very complicated, and very localized - the rules are not just by state but by county, sometimes even by municipality.

  

  Dan Gilbert
  • Sometimes
  • Rules
  • Mortgage

• Liberty is the possibility of doubting, the possibility of making a mistake, the possibility of searching and experimenting, the possibility of saying No to any authority - literary, artistic, philosophic, religious, social and even political.

  

  Ignazio Silone
  • Political
  • Religious
  • Mistake

• While teaching, I also worked undercover in the lower courts by saying I was a young law teacher wanting experience in criminal law. The judges were happy to assist me but what I learned was how corrupt the lower courts were. Judges were accepting money right in the courtroom.

  

  Samuel Dash
  • Money
  • Experience
  • Happy

• I don't really feel McCain. It ain't just because Barack is black; he can make change. Just like Bush equals recession, Barack equals progression.

  

  Young Jeezy
  • Black
  • Change
  • Feel

• When I find the right information, the Web is a blessing; when I don't, it's a distraction.

  

  Victor LaValle
  • Find
  • Information
  • Blessing

• I began hearing rumors of apossible recording session with Neil Young. I was a huge fan of Neil's.

  

  Jack Irons Pearl Jam
  • Young
  • Hearing
  • Rumors

• Press conferences aren't the best thing to do, but it's part of the job.

  

  Rafael dos Anjos
  • Job
  • Best
  • Press

• It would be a foolish high representative who worked that way.

  

  Paddy Ashdown
  • High
  • Way
  • Foolish

• It is only by not paying one's bills that one can hope to live in the memory of the commercial classes.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Live
  • Hope
  • Memory

• In motorsports we work in the grey areas a lot. You're trying to find where the holes are in the rule book.

  

  Danica Patrick
  • Work
  • Trying
  • Book

• I guess I'm a bit of a tomboy and can be quite resourceful.

  

  Maisie Williams
  • Guess
  • Tomboy
  • Resourceful

• I really am profoundly grateful just in general in my life. I've had an embarrassing amount of good fortune.

  

  Edie Falco
  • Life
  • Good
  • Grateful

• You learn to control every aspect of your muscles, your face, your toes, your fingernails. And that is how you tell a story, through movement.

  

  Karlie Kloss
  • Control
  • Learn
  • Face

• I actually don't think there is any difference between French and American cuisine. French cuisine was always about discipline, about ingredient, about creativity, but also about simple. I see America as very similar in these rights.

  

  Daniel Boulud
  • American
  • America
  • Simple

• When you are 18, 19, 20, you're used to being photographed all the time, in a certain way. So, the narcissism becomes almost out of control. And the way that young women are photographed, they become addicted to this feedback of the image.

  

  Marianne Faithfull
  • Time
  • Women
  • Control

• For women, the important ingredients for happiness are to forge an identity, serve the Lord, get an education, develop your talents, serve your family, and, if possible, to have a family of your own.

  

  James E. Faust
  • Important
  • Women
  • Family

• The arena of women's lives is somewhat more intimate. If a woman goes out with an incredibly attractive man and they break up, that woman is not more attractive to men. It's completely irrelevant to them. That's an example of the way women's minds work.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • Up
  • Work
  • Men

• There's no slow build anymore where you get a little part, then you get a little better part, then a better part, until one day your agent calls you us and says, 'guess what, you're a movie star,' and you say, 'Thank you!'

  

  Ellen Barkin
  • Movie
  • Star

• Come back, and do that thing, be lovely to each-other.

  

  Stephen Fry
  • Friends
  • Friendship

• I've been married twice. Most women would rather not be married to a traveling blues singer.

  

  B. B. King
  • Women
  • Most
  • Singer